"Christ" was treated as a proper name since very early times, certainly when it came into (what then was) English, it already was a proper name. In the 16th century, there arose a tradition of using "the Christ" to refer to the literal meaning of Christos="the anointed one", which is the Greek translation of Hebrew mashiah=Messiah, also meaning, in Hebrew, "the anointed one". But "the Christ" was only used when referring to this title of Jesus and its theological significance (of Christ being the Messiah whose coming had been prophesied by the Jewish prophets), and the proper name "Christ" without the article always continued to be used alongside with it, and was always the form employed more often.

"Let me tell you something, bendeco.You pull any your crazy shit withus, you flash a piece out on thelanes, I'll take it away from youand stick it up your ass and pullthe fucking trigger til it goes"click"."

*shrug* It always sounded to me like the correct word, but maybe that is because one tends to ignore pronunciation errors in one's own language. I don't have the DVD at hand to check it, which is a shame, as that movie is worth watching over and over.

Wouldn't it be great if this was all an elaborate hoax by Mel Gibson so he can live out his Simpsons appearance in reality by adding a shifty-eyed dog and a scene where Jesus shoots up the last supper?

"The Passion of The Christ" - sounds like a cross between the Passion soundtrack to the movie The Last Temptation of Christ. I didn't even realise that Mel Gibson had a wankfest for viewing, but wanted to wave to you anyhow :) hi!

As far as the supernatural powers thing goes, Jesus' powers were rather limited. I don't have my Bible handy, nor do I have access to a concordance, but my recollection of supernatural powers consists of:

* Walking on water* Feeding the 5K with three fishes and couple of loaves.* Summoning fish into the nets of Peter's boat* Turning water into wine* Healing lepers* Curing blindness* Reincarnating dead girls

There's also the philosophical matter of Jesus preaching 'Turn the other cheek' which would preclude him striking back.

Maybe if you set a money changing table in front of Jesus, he could get mad and overturn that, but Batman would need to be sitting on it first.

I bet all the blind people Jesus healed were fishermen. As with any job there are hazards associated with it. Fishermen no doubt had to prepare the fish they caught while still out on the water and this includes scaling them. I propose that the winds caused tiny particles of scale to be blown into the eyes which, after years of fishing, caused glaucoma like covering of the eyes leading to blindness. Jesus just happened to have been into the then unknown study of optometry and recognized the cause of this ailment which allowed him to perform his miracle.

Rather interesting since I'm willing to accept Jesus as a real personal who has been credited with fictional, supernatural powers whereas Batman is a fictional person who has (although grossly exaggerated) no supernatural powers, but is rather just really committed, wealthy, and works out a lot.